1. |
nervous
03:57
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Two days ago you threw yourself into a fit
You dug yourself into a pit x2
Last night I dreamt I saw your face ignite in crimson flame
But now I know you're not to blame; things don't have to be the same
I get so nervous about the future, I don't know if I will still be close to you
And yeah I guess it's true, I know it makes you nervous too
I'm sorry that I can't keep myself together, when I start disintegrating
you're the one who gets hurt the most
And I can't keep on getting too close
Last year I excavated parts of my own head
And I found things I thought were dead x2 oh god
I used to see myself as different from the others
But this floating feeling doesn't feel so good after a while
If I could stop the anchor spinning round my body
Like a compass gone berserk it doesn't work, no, nothing works; Nooooooo
I have a bed of rotten earth that gives me stable ground
But I've stayed there far too long, and all I've got to show are broken songs
I get so nervous about the future, I don't know if I can still be close to you
And yeah I know it's true, I know it makes you nervous too
I'm sorry that I can't keep myself together, when I start disintegrating
‘cause you're the one who gets hurt the most
And I can't keep on getting too close
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2. |
curl around
03:10
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don’t stand in the shade
You will get rolled flat
And I will watch you swell in the oven
I don't have many neighbours
They don't like to hear
Curl around you
I have found you
Ever feel like you're on the outside
looking on a tragedy
And I would watch you snap in the sunlight
it passed to you through your fingers
they can’t take it that fast
Curl around you
I have found you
but then the light took you away
you gave me warmth
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3. |
AQI
03:30
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the air will haze and in the distance
silhouettes of towers rest and peer back
coming soon to you
it's all so far away from me
How can it affect me at all
Keep the doors locked together
Clasped in a handshake
watch it swirling forever
oh tear my throat from the inside
it’s far too big to take it now
but pure enough to swallow
overdue explanation
answering the question in the air
i am awake tomorrow
(something like i see on the news
why is there glass strewn o'er the road?)
Keep the doors locked together
Clasped in a handshake
taste it swirling forever
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4. |
blood
03:19
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I can't wait for blood to stop running
I can't wait for blood to stop running
I will never blow out the smoke and
I can't wait for blood to stop running
Waves that break exactly the same way
pearls i’d wilfully swallow
your eyes floating on strings
in light
i’m walking out on the pavement
your hand is clutching my hand
my hand is holding on strings
it’s al
right
I will never blow out the smoke and
I can't wait for blood to stop running
I can't wait
Waves that break exactly the same way
and when i wake up in darkness
reach out when somebody isn’t there
i’ll sever all of the fingers
i’ll stop myself in your tracks
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5. |
story
03:37
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Here the cars don't slow down for me
but I don't jump out of the way
i have left behind a story
wearing out the beauty of the
flowers drifting on by
surface tension, dipping under
hold your breath and touch
i am sick of feeling like this
i am tired
one day you won’t care to watch me
dipping underneath
when i flick a switch will a
light come on this time
on the banks of purest water
i will sit and cry
i am sick of feeling like this
i am tired of my decisions
talk to me but
you, don’t know me
you won’t know my story
i am sick of feeling like this
i am tired
one day i will drink the water (drink the water)
when i flick a switch will a
light come on this time
on the back of best intentions
i will sit and cry
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6. |
snowfall
05:56
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the world stopped right before it ended
and air was like a knife to the lung
a year from now we can stop and laugh
a year ago i couldn’t wait any longer
the snow is filling up the gutter
i haven’t ever felt it like this way
we heard it shaking on the window
someday we’ll see it dancing in the light
the world stopped right before it ended
and air was like a knife to the lung
a year from now we can stop and laugh
a year ago i couldn’t wait any longer
and in the morning birds were singing
but it was in the middle of the night
there wasn’t any other reason left
the world stopped right before it ended
someday we’ll see it dancing
there was once a day
the sky was blue
i can’t make sense
make sense of you
i’ve seen rainclouds
i’ll see them again
but i can’t hear you
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7. |
synthpop trash
03:33
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burning
light in my arms
i’m turning
glass in my fingers
feel it
can’t say a word
i’m walking
down from the road i’m walking
enter
outside but in the centre
watching as you go after
talking about the morning
waking up in the evening
listen, get up, i am
fumbling
small stitches in the fabric
wishing for kindly gesture
listen, get up, i am burning
i look
back on it and i know now
i’m gonna die if i don’t
act on what i am turning
feeling in broken fingers
listen, get up, i am turning
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8. |
second coming
02:33
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i choked a little
on the bones at the back of my throat
i speak in riddles
and the answer i don’t even know
the story i was writing
i could not have an end
But I know it's all gonna come together again
We can act out public romance
like it's something that I do
and I'll piss off my friends with the scratching and yelling
scratching and yelling too, to a point where they just
know just know just know just know
it’s all gonna come together again
grab my hand, i’m nervous
scared of the things you might do
but i don’t know what i’d be if i wasn’t
what’s the difference what’s the difference
what’s the difference between us
what’s the difference when
it’s all gonna come together again
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9. |
fading day
02:42
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fading day
weight of head
tipped on shoulder
sorry i
can’t meet today
let it go
i wish i could have done some more
romanticisms treaded over
sad cliche
end of day
start the night
it’s alright
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10. |
through the centre
01:15
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My next door neighbour digs a grave in her front garden
but will you dig one out for me
i respect you when you’re not here
you said i didn’t need to
through the centre and out on the other side,
and I pretend that I am somebody else
Now I have to remember you
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Jamie Crooks New Malden, UK
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